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- From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: brief summary of Technical Corrigendum 2
- Date: 19 Jan 1996 02:01:15 -0800
- Organization: Twin Sun Inc, El Segundo, CA, USA
- Message-ID: <4dnq5b$t9a@der.twinsun.com>
- References: <4d554m$q4b@news1.halcyon.com> <4dfgdt$se6@der.twinsun.com> <1996Jan16.174120.3636@sq.com>
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- msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
-
- >Paul Eggert (eggert@twinsun.com) writes:
-
- >> * String and wide string literals need not be distinct even if not identical,
- >> so long as their elements have appropriate values.
-
- >This may be momentarily puzzling, if you don't realize that "their
- >elements" includes the trailing null character.
-
- My favorite bit of trivia along these lines is that it is possible
- for two non-identical string literals to have the same address!
- The null character is the key.
-